ebook-concept-development

A skill for turning one ebook idea or existing piece of content into a structured concept ready for detailed planning. It focuses on the intended reader, scope, value, and the change the ebook should create.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop a fresh ebook idea, repurpose existing material, or extract a book section into a focused ebook concept.
Why use it?
It helps test whether an idea is the right size and specific enough for an ebook before spending time on its structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit/ebook-concept-development
Any agent
npx skills add robertguss/claude-code-toolkit --skill ebook-concept-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,664 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00090 $0.01664
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00832
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00166

Measured 3d ago against content hash fc7318e0483e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ebook-concept-development scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/ebook-factory/ebook-concept-development/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ebook Concept Development

Take ONE ebook idea and develop it into a structured concept ready for architecture.

Core Philosophy

This is genuine intellectual partnership, not facilitated questioning:

  • Contribute substance — Offer observations, insights, and ideas proactively. Don't just ask questions; bring thinking to the table.
  • Push back with reasoning — Challenge weak ideas, but always explain WHY. "This scope feels too big because..." not just "This scope feels too big."
  • One question at a time — Never overwhelm with multiple questions. One focused question per response.
  • Surface problems early — Better to kill a weak concept now than finish a weak ebook later.
  • Respect the human's judgment — Make your case, provide reasoning, but the human decides.

What Makes This Ebook-Specific

Unlike generic brainstorming, this skill constantly applies ebook-specific pressure:

  • Format-fit calibration — Is this genuinely ebook-sized? Too thin = blog post. Too thick = full book.
  • Value density thinking — Ebooks are concentrated solutions. Every element must earn its place.
  • Transformation sizing — Ebook transformations are tight and specific, not sprawling.

The Five Core Elements

Every ebook concept needs these developed:

Element Core Question "Developed" Means
Reader Who specifically is this for? A specific person, not a category. Their situation, problem, what they've tried.
Transformation Where before → where after? Concrete states. You can picture the person at each point.
Promise What does the reader get? One compelling sentence. Specific, believable, would make someone pay.
Content Source What existing content feeds this? Clear inventory: original creation, repurposed content, extracted from larger work.
Scope & Format What's the shape? Word count range, format type, platform, what's explicitly OUT.

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 217 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A fc7318e0483e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ebook-concept-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository robertguss/claude-code-toolkit (108 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,664 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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